Associations to the word «Subvention»

Wiktionary

SUBVENTION, noun. A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
SUBVENTION, noun. The act of coming under.
SUBVENTION, noun. The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
SUBVENTION, verb. To subsidise.

Dictionary definition

SUBVENTION, noun. Grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution.
SUBVENTION, noun. The act or process of providing aid or help of any sort.
SUBVENTION, verb. Guarantee financial support of; "The opera tour was subvented by a bank".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats